Course, the biggest difference is, now, when you get in trouble for thinking like that, you don't get whooped.
Part of the problem is that knowledge is grounds for getting "whooped." I'm sure I would have had my bellybutton kicked if I hadn't played a couple sports. In our society, if you are an adolescent male who's only strength is a good intellect i.e. you don't play sports, and you know more about the world than your peers, you will be a target. You will be shunned
because of the good quality you have. That youth culture shuns knowledge and achievement is a big part of the reason why most youth are, frankly, quite dumb. Female youth are, on average, a little brighter because achievement is not such a stain on their popularity potential. But regardless of females, youth culture paradoxically identifies knowledge and achievement with a
failure to develop as an independent, autonomous individual, which is supposed to be the end goal of adolescent progress. It's the cave-man mentality that deems the ability to swing a club superior to the man who's potential is to design and build a spear. Our western civilization was built on the overcoming of this prejudice, which is fashionable among the ignorant and easily-manipulated, but we let it flourish in our most important educational institutions because we believe it is best to let the young find their own way.
